Of course he did. He went back in time and invented pizza. He then dreamed up Linux while eating the first pizza. So then he had to go foward in time (but not too far) and invent Linux. He then went forward in time enough to tweet Madonna.

If you don't really like college, or you just came to college to kill time until the Pro's, then fine, leave as soon as you can.

Or if you think you only have one shot to make it big in the Pro's and that time is now, then fine, leave now. The college experience is great, but not great enough to miss out on the chance to make millions vs. thousands.

But if you like college and you can help your future draft status even a little by staying another year, then stay. Once you give it up you can't get it back.

A 30+ year old ex NBA player with a wife and possibly even kids can't really recreate the college experience. They can get their degree off to the side, which is what a lot of them do, but they're not actually going "back to school".

Hell, I could go back to Michigan and take some classes, but it wouldn't be replicating the college experience. I'd just be some creeper around campus.

The college experience as a young person is a unique and highly underrated life experience. I would not trade mine for anything. But once it's over, it's over.

College is also a great experience, one you will never be able to replicate for the rest of your life.

At this point in my life, I can afford nice vacations, cars, house, etc. The stuff money can buy. What I can't do is replicate the college experience. What I wouldn't give to be able to go back in time for even one year of college.

So, if you know you are good enough to play in the NBA and get the big paycheck, why not stay in college an extra year? It's the last chance you'll ever get.

They are quantitatively different, but not qualitatively different. Meyer takes more out-of-state kids than Tressel did, but they both start by locking down their Ohio targets early, and then branching out from there. Meyer goes after a greater percentage of out of state kids, but he still has an Ohio core.

I see very few midwest and northeast recruits. It's mostly 4/5-star guys from CA and the South.

Harbaugh is a confident man, but we're late to the party and we're competing with the local programs who happen to also be elite top-of-the-food-chain programs. We're in a lot of top 5's for these guys, but not in a lot of leader slots. As you siad, we're going to miss out on most of these guys.

At what point does Harbaugh move on to the guys more likely to actually commit to Michigan? Is that something that he feels can wait until summer or even the fall?

It's seems inside-out from the way Meyer and even Tressel did it, where they would solidify their core of local guys early and then branch out from there for the national 5-star type guys.